Good for the DoD schools, then. That's encouraging to hear. ^__^
But for much of the rest of us schmucks, our schools are still busily erasing First Nations from the history books. I remember back when I was teaching at Roosevelt, and using the AP American History textbook (I think from Houghton Mifflin, but don't quote me on that), and it was just... awful. Just awful. There was barely any mention of the Bureau of Indian Affairs or anything that didn't involve white people. And this was an approved AP history textbook.
And yeah, I also like... I'm the product of some extremely excellent Iowa public schooling, and even *I* didn't know jack shit about the real history of the BIA, not until I went off to college and got my head smacked in with the clue bat.
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But for much of the rest of us schmucks, our schools are still busily erasing First Nations from the history books. I remember back when I was teaching at Roosevelt, and using the AP American History textbook (I think from Houghton Mifflin, but don't quote me on that), and it was just... awful. Just awful. There was barely any mention of the Bureau of Indian Affairs or anything that didn't involve white people. And this was an approved AP history textbook.
And yeah, I also like... I'm the product of some extremely excellent Iowa public schooling, and even *I* didn't know jack shit about the real history of the BIA, not until I went off to college and got my head smacked in with the clue bat.